Weekend With Wendell - HB Multicultural Winner of the Tomás Rivera

Winner of the Tomás Rivera Mexican Children’s Book Award

These men of vision lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live

like an emperor penguin

and delves deep into the experience that is the sea

Using a variety of poetic forms

Weekend With Wendell - HB Multicultural Winner of the Tomás RiveraWendell was spending the weekend at Sophie's house. Playing house, Wendell was the mother, the father, and the children; Sophie was the dog. Playing bakery, Wendell was the baker; Sophie got to be the sweet roll. Wendell shone his flashlight in Sophie's eyes when she tried to sleep. But when he gave her a new hairdo with shaving cream, it was the last straw, and Sophie made up a game that left Wendell speechless for a time and won the day for